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I use a prepaid card online, which would have been a good safety net against things like this Also he was able to get a refund, and i think in most places online, you can cancel the order
I'd say it's more like 1Password cost you $2,023.
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It’s not 1Password fault, but poor design and implementation. :-)
The poor design and implementation of 1Password, you mean.
I wish sites would test their forms with popular password management systems. This kind of thing happens all too often (thought perhaps not with such a high cost). Why not make it easy for people who auto-fill with these programs -- don't fight them. (And I won't get into sites that won't let you paste passwords into their forms.)
This is exactly why I don't trust autofill. How many times has it passed along information you didn't intend, but without any obvious errors? Nobody knows.
Similar situation here. I use 1Password every day, but I only trust it to autofill simple login forms. Where something more complex is happening, I tend to copy information over field by field. This was trained into me over the years as I saw 1Password do too many things that were wrong or even sometimes scary. The nominal benefit you get sometimes when it works properly isn't worth it. And yes, web providers should…
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Password managers aren't nearly intelligent enough to be used without copy and paste for sensitive forms. One example is how almost every password manager including the built-in one in most browsers will assume that if there's a type="password" field, then the previous sibling field must be the username. Sometimes they'll even pick a field far away in the DOM like your chatbox input to autofill with the username. So…
I find that both Bitwarden (personal use) and 1password (work use) do a very good job of filling in login forms.
So common that most password managers don't consider the case where you want to autofill a password without a matching username field on the page. "Password confirmation" being the classic example.
They just don't handle anything other than the main case very well.
I use a prepaid card online, which would have been a good safety net against things like this Also he was able to get a refund, and i think in most places online, you can cancel the order
You don't get cash back bonuses with a pre-paid card. In fact, they cost money. I am not going to give up saving 3% on everything I buy just to avoid this rare error that was easily corrected for no lost money.
I use a prepaid card online, which would have been a good safety net against things like this Also he was able to get a refund, and i think in most places online, you can cancel the order
I keep a small amount of cash in it at any time, and then do an instant transfer from my main account as needed for larger purchases. If that CC# were to get hacked, it would be annoying but not catastrophic.
Inconvenience level is pretty minimal and it’s served me pretty well.
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To counter this: if you happen to find yourself on the phishing domain facebo0k.com and you end up copying your password into that.. Browser extensions guard for this better than we can.
Yes, password managers are way safer than copy-pasting. You don't want something as sensitive as a password in your clipboard buffer, either.